Infectuous disease expert thinks we should wear masks forever

She stipulates various conditions under which mask wearing should be required, eg. seasonally, during outbreaks of other viruses (influenza and colds presumably), and while booster shots are being developed.

“I think people are going to be feeling uncomfortable without masks for some time,” she told me. Masks might slip on socially or seasonally, as people move in and out of public spaces, or when the temperature drops in winter. Public-health officials could also recommend face coverings intermittently in lockstep with outbreaks, or as a method to tide people over between boosters. “If people are smart, they will continue to mask if they’re in high-risk situations,” at least for a while, Maldonado told me, and perhaps not just for SARS-CoV-2 but for other airway viruses as well.

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